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Not a single game found in his dorm. If only Cho had an outlet for his rage, perhaps a virtual simulation where he could act out violent fantasies without hurting anyone. If only such a thing existed...

I'll be generous and guess 3 days (72 hours), mostly because they still haven't identified the gunman. Once they do, Jack will have to call up someone who knew him and ask if the gunman ever played, saw someone play, or hear about a Rockstar game before he can start throwing blame.

Ok, heres how it goes "I never planned YTMND as a "community","- max. In other words, This is NOT a forum. Also your headline "Guess the time till Jack Thompson exploits trajedy for personal gain" might as well have had your name on it, and the time was "Created on: 2007-04-16 18:14:43" : \

The point is, somber *ss ytmnds with headline events like this are the bottom of the barrell imo. I'm sure you are raising valid points but this has no reason to be here. And if you are getting ratings for anything relating to the VTech tragedy it just feels nasty. I wouldn't touch this story with a ten foot pole.

"And if you are getting ratings for anything relating to the VTech tragedy it just feels nasty. I wouldn't touch this story with a ten foot pole." I'd do it but I've got a busy half week of work to do. Also if you can't make jokes about tragedies then the terrorists and random sociopathic asian kids have won, and we can't have that. I think his slutty girlfriend is to blame. Who's with me?

this site has value. you should question the reporting of tragedies and their exploitation and be aware of how people's grief is manipulated. and damnit i agree with korf41 completely, its all the slutty girlfriends fault

You'd make it a guessing game because you're a liberal commie bastard, and you love the attention, you whore...
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jack thompson is a c*ck... his entire logic can be disputed in one statement:
the middle east has far less of a market for video games and things like that, yet violence seems to be the norm over there... :\
god, i cant stand that motherf*cker... the bodies aren't eve cold, and he's figured it all out... cuz jack thompson is so in touch with todays youths

I like the idea, but I feel a). you overplay your hand and clearly identify your vested interest, as opposed to simply making fun of the way people like JT operate, and b). it's just kind of a wall of text. You could keep the equation image, keep the main title, keep the sound (creates a nice effect right when the page opens) and just lose the rest of the text, and you'd actually have a fairly effective ytmnd. as it is, it's way too bloated for non- or casual gamers to appreciate.

Someone should just force him to play a video game on national television. If what he says is true, he'll go on a homicidal rampage and the cops will take him down. If he's wrong, then he finally has to shut his trap. Either way, we win.

You people who doubt him need to look at the statistics...if you count columbine and today, that's 3 people who have shot up their schools and killed lots of people. In a VERY conservative estimate, let's say 10 million people have played violent video games...that's .00003% of people!!!
If you don't consider 0.00003% of people who experience the "cause" showing the supposed effect to be statistically significant, you're mildly intelligent!

This myopic humor is grossly overshadowed by a tragedy that is still unfolding. Some Christian Republican will probably make ill-conceived connection to this violent act with media you hold dear like video games. Critiquing Jack Thompson's reaction is something for retrospect after closure and not for now when they're still literally removing the bodies from the dormitory. The cliche "too soon" has never been more appropriate.

I've written many papers and have participated in many official debates debunking the popular belief that violent video games provoke acts of violence like this. I always prove this theory wrong. Always.

Who cares? That's what they do on the news when all the info isn't in smartguy, make claims, speculate, bring in people w/ dffering opinions etc. They need SOMETHING to talk about. Cry about your f*cking video games some other time...

Boohoo, people died. I mean, it's not like people die EVERYDAY. We shouldn't think about anything else than the people that we don't know who died. Now, let's all sit in a circle and reminisce about those total strangers and the impact they had upon our life.

For anyone who says that this is "too soon," since when has YTMND been a place for sensitivity and respect?
Did you guys not see all the "lol, stingray" sites that appeared after Steve Irwin's death?
This is a great site, and it's full of truth. Sad truth.

Everyone in the media right now is attacking videogames. What's funny is that the news media shows clips of the gore from Virgina Tech every second they get. Right after they show more clips of our soldiers getting killed in Iraq, sent by a president who's more violent than any videogame I've ever seen. The real problem is that all our nation's institutions are run by old c*nts who have been in charge for way too long.

It's not video games, it's not guns, it's not violence on TV. It is a sickness that plagues mankind. Thousands die every day at the hands of others. This shouldn't be excluded as a "tragedy" nor was it preventable. These things are going to happen as long as mankind competes for their place on this planet.

Of course he's an expert, he's proven his "facts" concerning previous shootings to always be 100% accurate and never debunked at all. Fox News clearly does their homework and researches people's claims of being an "expert" long before allowing them to speak on the air about a horrific tragedy only 7 hours after it happened.

I'm a student at Tech, and it pissed me off when this douche got on tv and started talking about violent video games. I'm sure many of my fellow students who died played violent video games too. What a douchebag.

Laughing at a tragedy like this is pure sh*t. You think it's funny that 32 innocent people lost their lives yesterday? That's not funny at all. It was plainly obvious that Jack was going to blame video games on the incident. This site also makes me hate digg.com even more.

Of course, we are saying that the deaths of these people are funny. I mean... Uh... Oh, wait, that's right, you're a f*cking retard who makes baseless claims. The funny thing is that Thompson is even more of a douchebag than anybody expected. If you somehow read "LOL, 32 PEOPLE DIED", then you have a serious mental retardation problem.

I take my anger out on video games so that I don't spaz on people in rl. not "ZOMG I CAN'T BEAT THIS LEVEL!! I'M GUNNA KILL A BUNCH OF PEOPLE." I'm pretty sure video games had nothing to do with the shooting.

I would just like to say that it seems that alot of people actually believe stuff like this. We had a discussion about this in three of my classes, and all three teachers said something about violent video games maybe being a cause.

He says that playing GTA and Doom can improve you ability to kill innocent people. Does that mean that if I play WiiSport I'll be better at real sports? If I play Kirby will I be better at inhaling enemies?

This always gets way out of hand. Since they dont play video games and dont understand them, they want them gone. I can garuntee you if the same could be said about horror films or even magicians attempting the "Magic Bullet" trick (catches a bullet in their mouth), in that politicains and journalists didnt like either of those, then sure enough people like M. Night Shamalan (wrong spelling I figure) and Penn & Teller would be getting sued. This situation shows how dumb these people are.

I claim that all serial killers have: chewed gum, masturbated, drank water, spit, swore, and used shampoo. I cannot make this same claim for: had sex, studied astrophysics, seen Nicholas Cage, played video games, used a thesaurus, drank a beer in Finland, etc...

WHY WAS THERE A 2+ HOUR DELAY BEFORE STUDENTS WERE NOTIFIED?? BLACK OPS? WAS IT ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?... TAKE AWAY AMERICAS GUNS AND THE GOVERNMENT CAN DRAG PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES (LIKE IN NAZI GERMANY) AND PUT PEOPLE IN CAMPS. PROTECT YOUR CONSTITUTION!!!!!! (also NEDM)

GOD FUCING DAMNIT! I have these types of people
VIDEO GAMES DID NOT GET THE F*CKING ASIAN KID THE GUNS AND THE AMMO!
VIDEO GAMES DO NOT CREATE VOILENT PEOPLE, JUST STUPID F*CKS LIKE THIS *SS HOLE SAYING ITS GAMES FAULT!